All this happened, more or less.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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